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...last two Presidential campaigns served Franklin Roosevelt on the Democratic Labor Committee. As a result of his efforts last week, President Green was noticeably less militant than at the start of the convention. Invited to walk through A.F. of L.'s "open door" were C.I.O. textile, automobile, garment and oil unions. Cried Bill Green to them: "The key has been thrown away and we are singing that happy refrain, 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home...
Sing Out the News (by Charles Friedman and Harold J. Rome; produced by Max Gordon in association with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Biggest musical find last season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land...
Coming on the heels of a Crimson editorial printed last April, the appointment of Stanley Salmen as assistant to the Board of Advisers remodels Harvard's worst fitting garment into a streamlined gown of 1938 vintage and escapes once and for all the accusation that large university is a "leveler" which drags brilliant students down to the standards of the average...
...pioneered workers' education in the U. S. The union was founded in 1900 among garment workers in Manhattan, most of them immigrants. It taught them English and unionism. It soon found that its members, some of them cultured refugees from the old country, had unusual zeal for learning. In 1917 the young union started an education department, got famed Historian Charles A. Beard as consultant, opened a night-time Workers' "University" in Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, to teach labor doctrine and American history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education department spends...
...Stocky Julius Hochman, shaggy browed and square faced, looks like C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis, and is himself a product of workers' education. Born in Russia 45 years ago, he went to work at eleven for his father, a tailor. He arrived in Manhattan's garment district at 14, promptly enrolled in night school, later was graduated from Brookwood Labor College. Today he is a lover of painting and chamber music. He helped design Labor Stage, after the Moscow Art Theatre...